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From a population and public health standpoint, it is alarming that one in three adults with disabilities aged 18-44 years do not have a regular healthcare provider and have also reported having an unmet healthcare need due to cost in the past year. Additionally, one in four adults with disabilities aged 65 years or older did not have a routine check-up in the past year. The need for telehealth services to help bridge these gaps with patients are great, but there must be considerations when providing these services to these patients. Here are a list of resources that can help you understand and provide better care for patients with a disability.

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So many things have changed with COVID and the global pandemic. It has been the elephant in the room that we have lived with for over a year now. During this past year, so many of us have had days where we felt down and depressed.  While there are many efforts to remove the stigma about behavioral health issues, it is still not a truly open discussion yet among peers. Even though we ask people around us “How are you today?” the answer is rarely anything like “I had a great meeting with my therapist and we figured out that I needed a higher dose of my antidepressants.”

The year of 2020 was at best challenging.  It separated us from friends, family, colleagues, and from those that we saw at social functions. It tested us in ways many of us have never been before.  Many of us learned that we could do work remotely as well as we could in a cubical.  We spent more time supporting our children in their studies, and less time in the gym. For so very many of us our lives didn’t look remotely like the life we’d led in 2019.  Going to the grocery or the pharmacy was truly an outing “as needed only” basis.  Our elected officials closed malls, schools, courthouses, and our beloved restaurants. We did more dishes in 2020 than we have done in the previous three years!

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